South Asia
The US added Pakistan to a list of countries which have “engaged in or tolerated systematic, ongoing, (and) egregious violations of religious freedom” this week. The Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom, Sam Brownback, cited ...
Pakistan Prime Minister, Irman Khan has claimed that there is no historical record of Jesus Christ in a 20 November speech. This could have been a dramatic slip of the tongue by the Oxford University ...
Prime Minister Imran Khan announced that Pakistan will lead an international campaign against religious “defamation” on 20 November, in an apparent attempt to place his administration at the forefront of efforts to counter Islamic “blasphemy” worldwide. ...
The number of violent mob attacks on churches and arrests of Christians on false charges is accelerating at a dramatic pace in Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state, according to a report by the Evangelical ...
Four Christians were reported to the police and arrested in early November near Kathmandu charged with breaking Nepal’s strict anti-conversion laws. It was alleged that the individuals, two of them Japanese nationals, had been “proselytising” door-to-door, ...
Christians have been targetted in three recent incidents of persecution in Sri Lanka, according to the National Christian Evangelical Alliance of Sri Lanka. In Batticaloa, eastern Sri Lanka, around 7:40 am on 21 October soon ...
Aasia Bibi remains in fear of her life in protective custory in Pakistan a week after a Supreme Court exoneration which should have led to her immediate release and secure asylum in another country. In ...
Mass protests are being staged against the Aasia Bibi ‘not guilty’ verdict in Pakistan’s cities. Police moved to protect Youhannabad, Lahore’s largest Christian community. Other protests are underway in Islamabad, Karachi and Peshawar following the announcement ...
Aasia Bibi has been found ‘not guilty’ of all charges of blasphemy by Pakistan’s Chief Justice Saqib Nasir. Protests by Islamist groups and political parties are being staged in major Pakistani cities and the beleaguered Christian community ...
The Pakistan Islamist Tehreek-i-Labbaik party has threatened to paralyse the country within hours if the Supreme Court releases Aasia Bibi, a Christian woman sentenced to death for “blasphemy” in 2010. Local leaders have already been called ...
